Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Mission Details
STS-77
During the flight the crew performed microgravity research aboard the commercially owned and operated SPACEHAB module. The mission also deployed and retrieved the Spartan-207/IAE (Inflatable Antenna Experiment) satellite and rendezvoused with a test satellite. A suite of four technology experiments known as the Technology Experiments for Advancing Missions in Space (TEAMS) also flew in the Shuttle's payload bay.
Total Mass: 12,233.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Stats
1996
34th orbital launch attempt
Space Shuttle
77th mission
4th mission of 1996
76th successful mission
52nd consecutive successful mission